Joy Division | Photo by Martin O’Neill via Rhino
“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic ’80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial. The show airs at 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM’s 1st Wave (Channel 33).
The most recent two episodes are available to subscribers to stream via the Sirius XM app.
Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be played. They must fit the show’s format and fall generally within the 1st Wave era. And not be something the host really dislikes. If there’s something you’d like to hear, drop it in the comments below.
HOUR 1
The Mission, “Hands Across the Ocean” (Grains of Sand)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Candyman” (Tinderbox)
Ultravox, “The Thin Wall” (The Thin Wall)
Fad Gadget, “One Man’s Meat” (Gag)
David Bowie, “The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” (1.Outside)
Joy Division, “Transmission” (Live 12/18/79) (ETERNAL Live)
The March Violets, “Grooving in Green” (The Botanic Verses)
Alien Sex Fiend, “Isolation” (Here Cum Germs)
Coil, “The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)” (Love’s Secret Domain)
The Stone Roses, “Something’s Burning” (One Love)
Daniel Ash, “Day Tripper” (Coming Down)
David J, “No One’s Sending Roses” (Etiquette of Violence)
Peter Murphy, “A Strange Kind of Love” (Version 2) (Deep)
HOUR 2
The Cure, “A Night Like This” (The Head on the Door)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Cherry Came Too” (Darklands)
Gavin Friday and the Man Seezer, “He Got What He Wanted” (Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves)
The House of Love, “Yer Eyes” (Babe Rainbow)
Revolting Cocks, “38” (Big Sexy Land)
Pigface, “Tailor Made” (Gub)
Laibach, “Sympathy for the Devil” (Anthems)
KMFDM, “Don’t Blow Your Top” (Greatest Shit)
Lard, “Forkboy” (The Last Temptation of Reid)
The Teardrop Explodes, “Poppies in the Field” (Kilimanjaro)
Throwing Muses, “Bright Yellow Gun” (University)
Sort Sol, “Marble Station” (Natures Mortes – Still Lives)
The Suburbs, “Jam the Controls” (Suburban Lawns)
The Clean, “Point That Thing Somewhere Else” (Anthology)
HOUR 3
Love and Rockets, “Lucifer Sam” (Express: Expanded)
The Birthday Party, “Release the Bats” (Hits)
Dead Can Dance, “Black Sun” (Aion)
Ski Patrol, “Extinguish” (Peel Session) (Versions of a Life)
Depeche Mode, “Waiting for the Night” (Violator)
Red Flag, “Russian Radio” (Naive Art)
Chris & Cosey, “October (Love Song)” (7-Inch Version) (Songs of Love and Lust)
Simple Minds, “I Travel” (Empires and Dance)
The Sisters of Mercy, “Body Electric” (First and Last and Always)
Bauhaus, “Terror Couple Kill Colonel” (Version) (Bauhaus 1979–1983)
The The, “Helpline Operator” (Dusk)
The Smiths, “Death of a Disco Dancer” (Strangeways, Here We Come)
Echo & The Bunnymen, “Killing Moon” (Peel Session) (The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (7/5/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (6/28/26)
- Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Matt Sebastian (6/21/26)
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For future shows:
1. A Matter of Time – Berlin (with Terri Nunn off the “Best of Berlin” compilation)
2. The Ordinary Boys – Morrissey
3. Tora! Tora! Tora! – Depeche Mode
Song request
Rational by King Cobb Steelie
Karine from Winnipeg
Sending it out to the Nemo boys, and the Peel/Logan boys
Yay, thank you for the Red Flag (Russian Radio), that was my request! And thanks for the Pink Dots the week before this, not the song I requested but I love everything they do anyway!
Here’s some requests for future shows, not ones you’ve played before I think!
1. Current 93 – Crowleymass
2. Stromkern – Stand Up
3. Cobalt 60 – La Mort
4. Silke Bischoff – The Parting
5. Klinik – Black Leather
I’ll have to second that Current 93 song, not because it’s anywhere near their best song, but it is probably their funniest. C93 goes Christmassy Industrial Hip Hop!
Very good show once again, always like hearing new things; Sort Sol was new to me, and don’t really know The Clean that well.
New requests for future shows:
Edward Ka-Spel – Bloody Sunday
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Monochrome Days
Ministry – Isle of Man
The Fall – Before the Moon Falls
Curve – Die Like a Dog